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Mare Crisium /ˈkrɪsiəm/ (Latin, 'Sea of Crises') is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. Mare Crisium is a basin of Nectarian age. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that filled an ancient asteroid impact.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Mare Crisium | Coordinates | .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mare Crisium | Diameter | 556 km (345 mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mare Crisium | Formation | Nectarian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Mare Crisium | is a | basin of Nectarian age | 0.90 | text |
| Lunar Prospector | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
| GRAIL.Topographic mapGravity map based on GRAIL NamesLike most of the other maria on the Moon | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
| Mare Crisium was named by Giovanni Riccioli | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
| whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized.By the 17th century | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
| Mare Crisium had acquired the name 'Caspian Sea' | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
| being labelled as such by Thomas Harriot | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
| Pierre Gassendi | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
| Michael van Langren | instance of | The mascon was confirmed and mapped at higher resolution with later orbiters | 0.80 | text |
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